they needed to reduce their overtime<\/a> by nine to 11 hours in February as part of a cost-cutting initiative, The Post reported.<\/p>\nThe cuts came during the shortest and coldest month of the year when there were few major events, a spokeswoman said at the time, calling the move \u201cmanagement 101.\u201d<\/p>\n
But cops \u201csee the writing on the wall,\u201d said retired NYPD Detective Michael Alcazar, an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who served in the NYPD for three decades before retiring in 2019.<\/p>\n
Lieutenants Endowment Association President Lou Turco could see see 42% of his lieutenants retire. STEFAN JEREMIAH<\/p>\n
\u201cI did 30 years because it was a good job, I was getting good overtime, and I was enjoying it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut now these guys are not because they\u2019re backfilling patrol,\u201d he said of veteran supervisors forced back to the street to make up for a loss of manpower.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDetectives and lieutenants are back on patrol,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cYou know when you\u2019ve got 20, 25 years you don\u2019t want to put the bag back on and get on foot post, which is what they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch testified at a City Council budget hearing this week that 2025 retirements lined up with projections based on the number of cops hired two decades ago. <\/p>\n
SBA President Vincent Vallelong is trying to find ways to keep his officers from leaving. ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
She added that the NYPD had the \u201clargest hiring year on record \u2013 more than 4,000 officers\u201d last year.<\/p>\n
The department \u201cnot only outpaced attrition in 2025, we essentially brought the NYPD back to its authorized uniformed headcount for the first time in three years,\u201d Tisch said. The agency ended 2025 with about 800 more officers than it did on average over the last three years, officials said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not in a hiring crisis anymore,\u201d she told the City Council. \u201cWe ended 2025 at a headcount of 34,769 \u2014 just 250 shy of our authorized headcount.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the senior people we do not want to lose,\u201d Sergeants\u2019 Benevolent Association President Vincent Vallelong said.<\/p>\n
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been a longtime critic of the police department. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n
There are 220 sergeants who are bosses in the detective bureau who don\u2019t get special assignment money, which is basically lieutenant pay, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they gave them special assignment money, I promise right off the bat these guys wouldn\u2019t leave,\u201d the union boss said.<\/p>\n
Part of the problem with watching veteran officers walk away is that there\u2019s nobody left in the wings to replace them, said Munro.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have senior detectives telling their kids, \u2018Do not come on this job,’\u201d said Munro, who has two police officer sons. \u201cAnd that\u2019s not the way this job used to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than half of the NYPD\u2019s Joint Terrorism Task Force cops can retire right now, along with thousands…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36301,1027,57,9,11,10,103,58,82],"class_list":["post-171380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-counterterrorism","tag-homicide","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nypd","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}